Overview
- Provides a comprehensive map of the human security challenges faced by countries in the East Asian region
- Analyzes responses from more than one hundred interviews of politicians, activists, scholars, business people, and journalists
- Advances research on norm dynamics developed in the past two decades on international organizations
Part of the book series: Security, Development and Human Rights in East Asia (SDHRP)
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This book reveals how the idea of human security, combined with other human-centric norms, has been embraced, criticized, modified and diffused in East Asia (ASEAN Plus Three). Once we zoom in to the regional space of East Asia, we can see a kaleidoscopic diversity of human security stakeholders and their values. Asian stakeholders are willing to engage in the cultural interpretation and contextualization of human security, underlining the importance of human dignity in addition to freedom from fear and from want. This dignity element, together with national ownership, may be the most important values added in the Asian version of human security.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“An impressive array of top-quality case studies. Human security norms are localized and deeply rooted in economic and development strategy in East Asia. It is very timely to reflect the added-value of human security to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): no one left behind.” (Yukio Takasu, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on Human Security, Japan)
“The definitive comparative analysis of the varieties of human security in East Asia over the last quarter-century. Demands by East Asians for dignity and agency advance redefinitions of human security, projecting the new South onto a problematic global scene.” (Timothy Shaw, Visiting Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Yoichi Mine is Professor in the Graduate School of Global Studies at Doshisha University, Japan.
Oscar A. Gómez is Research Fellow at the Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute (JICA-RI), Japan.
Ako Muto is Senior Research Fellow at the Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute (JICA-RI), Japan.
Oscar A. Gómez is Research Fellow at the Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute (JICA-RI), Japan.
Ako Muto is Senior Research Fellow at the Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute (JICA-RI), Japan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Security Norms in East Asia
Editors: Yoichi Mine, Oscar A. Gómez, Ako Muto
Series Title: Security, Development and Human Rights in East Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97247-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97246-6Published: 17 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97247-3Published: 06 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-5104
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5112
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 324
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Politics, International Security Studies, Conflict Studies, Regionalism, Asian Culture, Terrorism and Political Violence